People's History: A People's History of Catalonia

People's History: A People's History of Catalonia
Michael Eaude
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h216 x 140mm - 288pg
20 Sep 2022 UK
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9780745342139
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On October 1, 2017, the Spanish police assault on Catalans voting in a peaceful referendum shot Catalonia' s struggle for independence onto the world' s front pages. Today, those two million-plus voters have neither forgiven nor forgotten: the struggle continues. Catalonia' s national consciousness has deep roots. A People' s History of Catalonia tells this small country' s history, from below, in all its richness and complexity. Catalonia' s struggles for freedom have, for centuries, been violently resisted; and its language and rights, suppressed. Since the nineteenth century, the fight for national sovereignty has often intertwined with working-class mobilisation for social justice. Barcelona became known as the Rose of Fire. In 1936 Catalonia saw one of history' s most profound workers' revolutions. From the peasant revolts of the 15th century and the siege of Barcelona in 1714, through the explosive workers' movement led by anarchists, the defeat in the Spanish Civil War, to the anti-Franco resistance in the grim years that followed, the author tells a compelling story whose ending has yet to be written.

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' Catalonia' s aspiration to cut loose from the Spanish state is often dismissed as the whim of a self-interested merchant class. The truth is more complicated. As Michael Eaude' s sharp, engrossing, and comprehensive historical narrative makes clear, the centuries-long push for Catalan independence is closely entwined with the peasant- and working-class struggle for social justice and democratic government' -- Sebastiaan Faber, author of ' Exhuming Franco' ' This well-written study takes us on a much-needed historical journey from below, eloquently capturing the rebellious traditions of Catalonia' s assertive and proudly defiant popular classes from medieval times to today. By combining broad strokes and intricate detail, he establishes crucial connections between past and contemporary struggles to produce a vivid picture of the class war in a fractured and divided society that produced, in many respects, the most far-reaching social revolution in European history' -- Chris Ealham, author of ' Anarchism And The City' ' This timely and impressive book not only dispels the myths and prejudices about the Catalan people' s struggles, so prevalent in Spain and elsewhere, but demonstrates the constant intertwining of the battles for national rights with peasant and working-class revolt "from below". A thoroughly recommended read' -- Andy Durgan, historian and author of ' Voluntarios por la revolucion' ' Gives a voice to one of the most rebellious people in Europe whose insurgency reached a pinnacle in 1936 with working class revolution in Catalonia and continued through the ending of the Franco dictatorship through to today' s fight to gain independence in the face of Spanish repression and nationalism. Michael does the Catalan people proud' -- Chris Bambery, author of ' Catalonia Reborn' and Public Point of Enquiry for the All Party Parliamentary Group on Catalonia
Michael Eaude has lived between Barcelona and the hills of Valencia for thirty years. He has written widely on Spanish and Catalan literature and politics. His several books include Catalonia, a Cultural History and Sails and Winds on the history, politics and culture of Valencia.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780745342139
Published: 20 Sep 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Pluto Press
Publisher: Pluto Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 140mm
Weight: 1g
Pages: 288

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